Sunday, May 18, 2008

A blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

The blonde cop asked to see the blonde's driver's license. She dug through her purse and was getting progressively more agitated. 'What does it look like?' she finally asked. The policewoman replied, 'It's square and it has your picture on it.'

The driver finally found a square mirror in her purse, looked at it and handed it to the policewoman. 'Here it is,' she said.

The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then handed it back saying, 'Okay, you can go. I didn't realize you were a cop.

The church is generally a censorious community. In this environment art issanitized, tame and conformist. It is still art, but functions as areinforcement of the system. Expression is controlled and edited from start tofinish. This kills art because it kills creativity because it kills freedom.Instead, allow people to be free without scrutiny. (I even hate the word “allow”because it assumes it needs to be given when it is already ours.)

In due time, after people begin to realize that they are loved and acceptedunconditionally, the creative spirit will surface and artistic diversity willabound. This is the harder but more genuine way. It means taking care of theroots. If the root is unfettered freedom, then fruitful and artistic livinghappens. It is the diversity of human expression of personality that makes theartful life. Until this is nurtured art will be repressed.